yvon
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Friday, September 28, 2012:
Our program for the weekend, is three hikes in New Hampshire. The weather forecast will not be sunny, but nothing to worry about. Saturday morning, we have to scrape our car glasses because it was cold during the night. For today, the weather forecast is cloudy and rain late in the afternoon. We have a coffee at the motel and we headed to our first destination of the day. We expected to do a summit in the morning and go for another one in the afternoon. Our first hike will be Kearsarge North Mountain with great views of several summits at the summit with a nice fire tower. The place is an historic site and it is the last fire tower of White Mountain. This tower is really special and has a large space surrounded by windows that protects us from the wind and a magnificent 360 view. 15 minutes after we left the summit for the parking lot, it starts to rain and the further down more it rains hard. Annie says to me, "Be careful. Because the rock surface is covered with algae and it's very slippery". 5 seconds later, I slipped and fell directly on my left knee. It hit hard, but no damage just a scratch. We arrive at the parking and it's still raining pretty hard. Our afternoon hike will be canceled.
Because we are close to Conway, then we decided to go shopping at Eastern Mountain Sports and other places. We buy lots of things finaly. Back at the motel, we had our diner and watch the weather for tomorrow. And this is not reassuring.
PHOTOS OF KEARSARGE NORTH
Our program for the weekend, is three hikes in New Hampshire. The weather forecast will not be sunny, but nothing to worry about. Saturday morning, we have to scrape our car glasses because it was cold during the night. For today, the weather forecast is cloudy and rain late in the afternoon. We have a coffee at the motel and we headed to our first destination of the day. We expected to do a summit in the morning and go for another one in the afternoon. Our first hike will be Kearsarge North Mountain with great views of several summits at the summit with a nice fire tower. The place is an historic site and it is the last fire tower of White Mountain. This tower is really special and has a large space surrounded by windows that protects us from the wind and a magnificent 360 view. 15 minutes after we left the summit for the parking lot, it starts to rain and the further down more it rains hard. Annie says to me, "Be careful. Because the rock surface is covered with algae and it's very slippery". 5 seconds later, I slipped and fell directly on my left knee. It hit hard, but no damage just a scratch. We arrive at the parking and it's still raining pretty hard. Our afternoon hike will be canceled.
Because we are close to Conway, then we decided to go shopping at Eastern Mountain Sports and other places. We buy lots of things finaly. Back at the motel, we had our diner and watch the weather for tomorrow. And this is not reassuring.
PHOTOS OF KEARSARGE NORTH
